Solutions Architect

As a Solutions Architect you will be responsible for providing strong technical leadership and direction in the delivery of Flooid's projects. 

Working alongside the Project Implementation teams and Product Architecture, our Solutions Architects use their extensive knowledge of the product and its unique offering within the retail sector, combined with more general industry best practice architecture principles, to oversee the entire project lifecycle from pre-sales through design, development, delivery and support. 

Collaboration and communication skills are critical as you will work closely with the customer as key member of the Flooid project team to provide technical solution leadership for both the customer and internal implementation teams. 

 Responsibilities include:  

• Accountable for the definition and design of Product-centric solutions to Flooid's customer base and for ensuring the design is applied to the delivery phase of a project through strong technical leadership. 

• Ensure that the company vision of our technology strategy is represented and applied through all product and project activities. 

• Work with project delivery teams throughout the project life cycle. Particularly paying attention to ensure projects are adequately defined from the outset (RFI/RFP/pre-sales) while ensuring this definition is understood and communicated throughout the project life-cycle. 

• Ensure requirements are adequately defined from a business, technical, and operational perspective and work across project teams to assist in this regard throughout the entire application lifecycle, focussing on all areas from NFRs, Infrastructure Design and Business Requirements through Implementation, QA, Integration, Release and Support. 

• Work in collaboration with project leaders and implementers to ensure the design and implementation of enterprise-ready business applications is done in-line with specified architectures and technologies.  

• Assist project delivery teams by providing key input into commercial and legal proposals and negotiations. 
• Provide troubleshooting and triage support for production systems during the project pilot and rollout.

As a Solutions Architect you will need to have strong product knowledge, great business awareness, a flexible adaptable approach and strong communication skills.  

You should have: 

• Well-established knowledge of Software, Technical, Data, Infrastructure and Integration Architectures/Patterns and the ability to ensure that the definition and delivery of solutions adhere to those best practices. 

• Experience of project delivery working within the retail sector.  

• A background in software development and extensive experience of delivering enterprise-level, professional computing solutions. 

• Experience of leading and working as a key influencer in software delivery teams using agile development methodologies. 

• Experience with working directly with customers and collaborating within a multi-disciplined team throughout the entire project lifecycle from pre-sales through to support. 

• Excellent commercial and financial acumen.  
• Effective oral and written communication skills, and excellent interpersonal skills. Must be able to communicate and interact well with co-workers and customers. 

• Excellent memory, organisational ability, and the ability to set priorities, handle multiple responsibilities and meet deadlines. 
• Excellent critical thinking abilities.
• A desirable, but not required skill would be a candidate who is fluent in French.

If you can work collaboratively, build strong cross-functional relationships and are goal orientated, this could be the role for you.  

You may have experience of the following: software architecture, software engineering or software development.

• Flexible working – To help you manage your personal responsibilities and interests, we offer a range of flexi-working options, including hybrid working, as well as balancing your work responsibilities with other priorities, like picking up your children, caring for an aging parent or attending important events.
• Holidays – We operate a flexible holiday allowance scheme, we recommend employees take around 25-30 days holiday plus public bank holidays per year.
• A flexible pension – We help you prepare for the future with a salary sacrifice pension and annual personal pension reviews with our external partner
• Company sick pay – We offer piece of mind when you are ill with an enhanced Company Sick Pay policy
• Family benefits – We offer a range of support and benefits including enhanced maternity, adoption and paternity pay, enhanced paternity leave and shared parental leave
• Electric Car salary sacrifice scheme – An easy to manage and affordable way of leasing a zero-emission electric vehicle
• Online learning platform –We offer full access to Udemy for all employees, which offers a variety of technical, business and personal development e-learning courses.
• Financial, physical and wellbeing support – To help keep you at your best we provide our team with a health cash plan and if the worst should happen, we have a life assurance scheme
• Access to a discount platform – Treat yourself with discounts and rewards from hundreds of leading retailers, restaurants, and destinations
• Professional subscriptions – We offer reimbursement for professional subscriptions to a relevant institution if it’s required to perform your job role
• Charity giving – support a charity of your choice by gifting money directly from your payroll, saving the national insurance contributions you need to pay
• Cycle to work scheme – Make the most of this tax efficient scheme to improve your commute to work
• Rewarding long service – We provide gifts to our employees who achieve milestone years of service working as part of our team

If you believe you have the skills and experience to carry out this role, although feel you do not meet 100% of the criteria, we encourage you to apply anyway! Research suggests that certain groups of the population will apply for a role if they meet 60% of a roles requirements, while others will only apply if they hit 100% - we encourage applications from anyone with the skills, experience and attributes that will make you a great addition to both the role they are applying and the company overall.

Flooid Ltd. is an Equal Opportunities employer. We are dedicated to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.